Portland seeks care for homeless amid virus surge

(24 Dec 2020) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4302295 The pandemic has caught homeless service providers in the U.S. in a crosscurrent: demand is high, but their ability to provide services are constricted. Shelter operators who already cut capacity by half to meet social distance requirements amid the pandemic face new stresses with winter looming. In many U.S. cities, coming in from the cold can now mean a night in a warehouse, an old Greyhound bus station, schools or an old jail as communities s